 If you bought a 60 yr old home and had some money to put into creating it however you like, what would you do?
If you chose to restore it to its original state 60 years ago, you’d have small bedrooms and bathrooms, old plumbing, creaky flooring, etc. Instead, if you chose to redesign it, you could take out some walls, expand the kitchen and build a garage to suit your family’s needs for now. As times change, the world around us also changes. Prices in food, water and gas increase and fluctuate all the time. Do your thoughts and perceptions also shift to go along with the times or are you still thinking the same way as you were 5 years ago? In other words, are your thoughts, emotions and body able to adapt to the changes that life asks you to make? Stuck in our ways When we try to remain the same even when it’s not appropriate, this creates tension in our body. The tension builds and builds and then either drives us towards change or to pain, dysfunction and eventually, disease. Dr. Donald Epstein says that disease happens when we did not make the change in our life that we were supposed to. This could be a change in diet and exercise habits, it could mean speaking up, getting out of a bad relationship, etc. Life is supposed to hurt and be painful if you are not doing what you are supposed to be doing. If you are not joyful, if you’re not following your passions and your purpose, it is supposed to hurt. Treatment without changing If we treat the disease and don’t change our lives, we simply try to restore ourselves to the way we used to be. Remember, our old selves is what got us to the pain in the first place! Instead, we need to change who we are being and upgrade ourselves for the future. Rather than trying to be who we were in the past, we evolve into the person the future requires us to be. Need some help evolving into the person that your future requires you to be? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.
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 Imagine you are a postman and you had a letter that you had to deliver. You go to the house and knock on the door. No one is home so you decide to come back the next day. The next day, you see a car in the driveway, so you knock on the front door again and perhaps you go around to the back door and knock there. On the third day, as you’re walking up to the house, you see the curtain move in the window...now, you know that someone is home. You knock on the front door, side door and no one answers. Because you know someone is home, you knock louder and louder until finally, the door opens and the person shouts “what do you want????” You hand them your letter and you leave.
Pain is your letter, and the message has to be delivered. It will start off subtle and keep knocking at your door until you decide to answer. The good news is, once you open the door and receive your message, the pain goes away. But, what do most people do instead? They numb out the messages from their body. They eat more food, sit on the couch and watch TV, go shopping, or take drugs to distract themselves from experiencing and feeling. In general, when a pain or body signal comes up, people turn to over-the-counter medication, such as Advil or Tylenol. They try to numb the pain so that they don’t feel it anymore. If that doesn’t work, they turn to something stronger, such as prescription drugs. Imagine you had hurt your knee running and decided to take Advil or Tylenol to numb the pain. If the Advil “worked” and your knee pain stopped, does that mean that your knee is no longer damaged? No! It means that you have successfully “tricked” your brain into thinking that everything is ok when it’s not. What would happen if you now continued to go running on your injured knee? You’d probably hurt yourself even more. How does the medication know where to go? When people take a pill, they imagine that the pill knows exactly where to go in order to relieve them of their symptoms. This is not true. Imagine you had a backache and took Advil for the pain. The pill does not have little massagers that go directly to your back pain to relieve it. The medication does not have a GPS system on it nor does it know how to locate only one area to create an effect. When taking medication, it works on your ENTIRE BODY at the same time to numb it all out! Medication is also tough on the liver that needs to detoxify the chemicals that are now in your body. Now, I’m not saying that all medication is bad. Medication has its place in healthcare and it needs to be used with caution and care. By developing your body awareness, you can receive your body’s messages at an earlier stage and avoid the suffering altogether! Need some help with developing your body awareness? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Pain can mean many things to different people, but on the most basic level, pain is simply a way for your body to give you warning signals and to communicate to you. But what is the pain trying to tell you? We’ll get to that soon enough. For now, remember that keeping an open mind and changing the way you look at something can have an affect on how you feel about it. How often have you yourself or seen others try to wish a pain away? Some people try to mask pain by taking medications or have had treatments or procedures done to relieve their pain. They may have even been able to cut their pain out of them by having surgery and removing it from their body. Others might have even become so acquainted with their pain that they accept it as a part of their daily life. Imagine that you had knee pain that has been bothering you for a few years. One day, on a walk, you stumbled upon a magical lamp and out came a genie to grant you one wish. What would you probably ask for? Would be it, “What is my purpose here? or How do I help this world? Probably not, most likely, it would be “How do I get rid of my knee pain?”. Of all the possible questions you could ask! In my office, we start working together on regulating the physical aspects of a person i.e. through life force, before we move to the emotional, mental and spiritual levels. There’s a difference in consciousness between pain and suffering and spiritual awakening. The gap can be closed quickly though most often it is easier to accept a gradual shift. Often, when people come in for an initial consultation with me, they say “If only I could get rid of my bad blank (back, neck, shoulder, etc), everything would be ok.” The truth is, even if you managed to have surgery and cut out a part of you, you’d still be missing information that your body is trying to tell you. You’d also be missing a part of the whole you. There have been some great studies on organ transplant recipients that have demonstrated emotions and experiences being stored in various parts of the body. Paul Pearsall is a neuropsychologist who writes about the physical heart containing memories that belonged to it’s original person. There have been many cases where after undergoing a heart transplant, the recipient has had personality changes that can be traced back to the hearts original owner. This demonstrates that each part of your body contains information about you. It is time to pay attention to the messages coming from your body. Need some help with your pain? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Albert Einstein once said “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” This is true of your pain and symptoms. The knowledge you have acquired so far has gotten you to where you are today, what shift will need to happen so you can get you to where you want to be? The truth is, if you want to end your pain and what you’ve been doing so far hasn’t been working for you, the first thing you’re going to have to do is open your mind to changing how you think about your pain! So, what does pain mean to you? Pain can mean different things to different people. For some, pain is seen as an annoyance, nuisance, something you have to “deal” with or get through. For others, it is something to be scared of and when they’re in pain, they feel powerless or like a victim. Some people believe they have nothing to do with the pain at all and that their life was going along “just fine” until the pain showed up to ruin it! There are others that get a sense of significance because when they are in pain, they get more love and attention. There once was an elderly lady who got sick often. Whenever she was ill, her family and friends would come and visit and do things for her and make her feel better. For her, she found out that being sick meant being loved. When she became aware of that, she simply told her family that she needed to spend more time with them and she got sick less often. So, what does pain mean for you? Need some help with your pain? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Where are limiting beliefs stored in your body? Your limiting beliefs are stored in your spine through your posture. When an event occurs in your life that’s too hard to deal with in that moment, your body goes into protection mode. This allows you only to experience what you are able to process at that time. Imagine for instance that you got into a car accident. Every single cell in your body moved the moment that your car collided with the other car. When the paramedics came to ask you if you were in pain, you mentioned hitting your head on the steering wheel. A week later, you may notice some bruising on your shoulders from your seatbelt or on your knee from hitting the dash. Your body froze and then did a triage for the important organs. Your body protects you from physical pain but what about emotional pain? For emotions that are too painful for you to experience, your body locks up your spine so you don’t have to deal fully with the experience. Your posture, breath, energy and movement will change. Picture a depressed person, what would their posture be like? How about an ecstatic person? What would be different? Your posture says a lot about yourself and the life that you’ve lived! So, how do I change my programming from the past? The only way is through awareness. When you are aware of your emotions, sensations, etc. You can monitor how your body reacts and through that, make a change. When you repeat the new change over and over again, that new pattern then becomes ingrained into your nervous system and eventually, you form a new habit. This is how all habits are replaced. Need some help with your past programming? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  If you’re like me, there are things that you procrastinate on. Some things may be small such as putting off laundry or cleaning for another day while others may be big such as deciding on a new job, what you want to do with your life, etc. We feel we can put things off to a later date because we feel there will be another day. So far, we’ve always survived until the next day so why would we think we would not. When we think there’s another day for us to live, we give ourselves permission to take away urgency. While it is true that not everything is an emergency, we also put off a lot of important things. What if, instead of acting like we have lots of time, we act as if we have none? What happened in school when you had a test to study for or an assignment to hand in on a certain date? You probably worked harder as the date came closer. Are there any big things in life that you have been putting off for another day, month or year? How about the trip you’ve always wanted to take? The book you’ve wanted to write? The business you always wanted to start? What if we realise that our days are not guaranteed? While we were fortunate enough to wake up today, how many others did not? How many hopes and dreams did not come to realization because someone is not here today? Stop acting like you have unlimited time. Get clear on your priorities and the people and things that are important to you and then take action to achieve them. Stop acting like you still have time! Live passionately! Need some help? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  There are many ways to get things done. Sometimes, we require more motivation than others.
Motivation can take on many forms. Motivation can come from internal factors where you make the decision to do something. It can also come from outside sources, for instance, having a deadline imposed upon you. When the source comes from outside, it can be inspiring or manipulating and fearful. I noticed that when I ask my children to do something and they don’t, that I try to manipulate them into doing it. They usually do as they are told, but neither of us are enjoying ourselves. It usually takes the form of “If you don’t do <insert blank> than….Mommy will take away something, or you won’t get to watch Paw Patrol, etc. While this may be a useful technique, I don’t want to threaten my children into doing what I want. Also, one day, it won’t work anymore and I would not have developed the skills to create action. The other consideration is, what will my children learn from this? What if they correlate taking action with having something taken away from then? There's got to be another way! You can inspire others to take action! Have you ever heard a moving speech that inspired you to donate to a cause? Have you seen someone else do something that has caused to you change? For my kids, one thing they like is to do activities with me. So, if I say, let’s clean this up together, they will have fun. If I make a game of it, they will take even quicker action. For example, who can pick up the most toys? Find ways to motivate or inspire yourself into making changes and taking actions. See the difference it makes! Need some help? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  I have had “people pleaser” disease as long as I can remember. The symptoms of this disease include always doing things for others, putting others first ahead of one’s own needs, trying to fit in, diminishing one’s self worth, putting others up on a pedestal, etc. How is people pleaser disease or as I call it, the PP disease cured? We need to examine the root cause of why it’s present. Growing up I always wanted to fit in but never really did. I wanted to be like the other kids in school. I wanted to wear clothes that were in fashion and I couldn’t because my Mom was a single mom, raising 2 children, going to school and working just to feed us. I wanted to eat the same foods for lunch that other kids got to and instead I got smelly Chinese food. I wanted to speak like the other kids did but I had to take ESL classes. I remember times in my childhood where I would wish to be like the other kids….but I never really was. This desire to fit in, lead me to take actions to try to fit in. I would ‘do’ extra things for others in order to get recognized. As I began to receive more praise for ‘doing’ things to make others happy, I continued to do more of it. I even got a citizenship award in my grade school because I pleased/helped so many people. My value was attached to making people happy. Somewhere along the way, as I grew older, I became aware that while I made alot of other people happy, I was not happy myself. Thus began my search to find out what makes me happy. I realised that I didn’t even know who I was because I was so busy being what others wanted me to be. As I did more inner work, my outer world shifted. Funny how when you take a stance on something, the people and events that you attract into your life shift as well. Curing PP disease does not mean that you stop doing things for others or stop thinking about others. It’s good to be able to put yourself in another’s shoes. It does mean that when you decide the actions you take, it’s because they align with who you are. The results may be the same, but you are not longer selling yourself out for it. Do you need help with PP disease? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  When we get a signal from the external world, our senses receive and perceive it. It is then picked up by our nervous system which causes us to react. When a signal comes from our internal world, we experience the sensation as pain, pleasure or an emotion and we react to it. In either case, when a signal is received, we (our body) has a response. How do we (our bodies) know how to respond? Well, we respond with the behaviours that were learned the first time the signal was experienced....usually, this dates back to our childhood. Have you ever observed a grown adult acting like a child? Or, told someone to “grow up” or “act their age”? That “adult” person is on “autopilot”. Whatever emotion, sensation or pain they are currently experiencing is causing them (their body and emotions) to “re-live” the time when they felt the same way in the past and “re-activate” how they reacted to the situation, sensation, stimulation at that time. For example, if at the age of 3, you wanted a big red bicycle from your parents for your birthday and you did not get it. You may have taken this to mean that your parents didn’t love you, you weren’t deserving, or some other negative thing reflecting your disappointment and hurts. You didn’t consider another “truth”. You developed a perception or “a belief” at that time, along with its associated body chemistry reaction and emotions. The truth could have been very different - maybe your parents did not have enough money to buy you a bike or the stores were all sold out, or there were none available in your size, or….? . Whatever the reason, you perceived this experience of not getting a red bike when you were 3 years old as not feeling loved and being disappointed, and that hurts. A lot. Your body remembers and stores your life experiences in your nervous system and they show up in a certain posture you do, behaviour patterns, breathing patterns, energy and movement, expressions, etc. Later on in life these “stored” emotions, reactions and patterns surface whenever something comes up or triggers you (it could be a taste, smell, song, etc.) that has any link or resemblance to the past event or situation. You end up reverting back to that past first experience, how you felt (those 3 year old feelings) and how you reacted. When in your adult life have you noticed that you reacted like a child? Need some help with your limiting beliefs? Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. For more information about my office (Bioheal Ottawa), click HERE.  Have you ever gone to a circus and seen an elephant being held in place by a thin piece of rope around its ankle? Think about this for a second. An elephant is one of the strongest animals in the world and can move entire trees. Why then does it not simply break this thin rope and run away? This answer lies within its limiting beliefs. When circus trainers first get a baby elephant to train, they start by tying its leg up with a heavy chain. The baby elephant will pull and pull to try to get away because that’s its natural instinct. It will pull day after day until it exhausts itself, all the while, not being able to break free. One day, it will give up hope and think it’s impossible to get away. Eventually, trainers can tie a thin rope around its ankle and it will never try to escape, simply because it doesn’t think it can. This very thing happens to us all the time! When we were little kids, we thought we could be, do and have anything. Somewhere along the way, we started to believe what other people told us. We forgot about our dreams to become Prime Minister or an astronaut. We soon settled for less. Now, we don’t believe we are good enough, smart enough, pretty enough, thin enough, etc. But, this does not have to be the way! We can challenge our limiting beliefs! Our first step is by being aware of them. Look at the following areas in your life. Write what you would like to achieve, no matter how crazy you think it is. Next, write down why you can’t achieve your goals...these are some limiting beliefs. Areas to examine:
What are some of your limiting beliefs? Let me know! Give our office a call. I am available for virtual consults and in-office consults. 613-446-6060. For more information about virtual treatments, Click HERE. Looking for more information about Neuro-Optimization? Click HERE. |
AuthorDr. Amanda is a non-traditional chiropractor who focuses on Neuro-Optimization Chiropractic in Ottawa, Canada. 
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